2,158 research outputs found
Being political and the reconstruction of public discourse: Hannah Arendt on experience, history and the spectator
No full textThis study analyses a number of Hannah Arendt’s books and essays written over fourdecades and suggests that a common thread can be detected that links together thedifferent stages of her thought. The need to do this follows from having to treat withcaution Arendt’s own judgement that in the mid-1930s her thinking changed when shebecame political. In relation to writings she produced throughout her life, what can beseen is that she was actually preoccupied by one and the same question, namely, whatit means to be with other people, she just looked for answers in different places andused different methods. The study shows how in her dissertation on Saint Augustine’streatment of love and such early published pieces as ‘The Enlightenment and theJewish Question’ and her commentary on Rilke’s Duino Elegies, Arendt was alreadychallenging Heidegger’s ontology, in Being and Time, of ‘being-with-one-another’.Her thinking at this time was purely empirical though, dependent upon interpretationsof history alone. Her later work, The Origins of Totalitarianism and The HumanCondition, for instance, reveal that Arendt’s political conversion amounted to therealisation that ontology and history are as necessary to each other as Kant’s conceptsand intuitions. Her defence of plurality therefore, represented both a reaction to theevils of totalitarianism on the grounds that it is an anti-political form of government,and a revised challenge to Heidegger’s assessment of das Man on his own terms. Inaddition though, Arendt’s depiction of public space and public discourse, suggestedthat choosing to be with others politically, is an antidote to the solitude of theindividual engendered by mass society
Citizen participation in news
No full textThe process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply
Pojęcie „socjalizmu” w myśli politycznej Alexisa de Tocqueville’a
No full textThe article presents an analysis of an original conception of socialism outlined in the works of Alexis de Tocqueville. The author begins with a brief presentation of historical context in which the views of French thinker were shaped, referring to his experiences from the period of the July Revolution of 1830 and the February Revolution of 1848. The author goes on to detailed analysis of his definition of socialism, making an indispensable reference to his republican conception of freedom and the role of a citizen in democracy. Finally, the author looks at Tocquevillian vision of genesis of socialist ideas, associated by him with anxiety, which democratic system inevitably generates.Artykuł stanowi analizę oryginalnego ujęcia socjalizmu, zarysowanego w pismach Alexisa de Tocqueville’a. Autor wychodzi od nakreślenia historycznego kontekstu, w jakim kształtowały się poglądy francuskiego myśliciela w tym obszarze, odnosząc się do jego doświadczeń z okresu rewolucji lipcowej 1830 r. oraz rewolucji lutowej 1848 r. Następnie przechodzi do szczegółowej analizy jego definicji socjalizmu, czyniąc niezbędne odwołanie do wyznawanej przez niego republikańskiej koncepcji wolności i roli, jaka przypada obywatelowi w demokracji. Na zakończenie autor przygląda się Tocqueville’owskiej wizji genezy myśli socjalistycznej, wiązanej przez arystokratę z niepokojami, jakie nieuchronnie rodzi system demokratyczny
War, Ukraine and literature – Jonathan Safran Foer’s expedition into the depths of Central European oblivion
No full textW artykule analizuję bestsellerową amerykańską powieść wydaną po polsku przez wydawnictwo WAB: Wszystko jest iluminacją Jonathana Safrana Foera. Chcę przyjrzeć się temu, jak autor konstruuje swoją narrację, w jaki sposób dotyka problemu Zagłady i poszukiwania własnych korzeni przez przedstawicieli kolejnych pokoleń potomków ocalonych. Powieść jest ważnym przykładem nowego sposobu mierzenia się literatury z tematem Zagłady. Konteksty interpretacyjne zaczerpnęłam między innymi z pracy Kai Kaźmierskiej Biografia i pamięć na przykładzie pokoleniowego doświadczenia ocalonych z Zagłady, która analizuje zjawisko powrotu do miejsca urodzenia jako spełnienia przymusu biograficznego badanych, oraz z prac Marianne Hirsch, twórczyni pojęcia postpamięci.In the article I analyze a bestseller American novel published in Polish by WAB publishing house: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I want to look into the way the author constructs his narration, how he addresses the issue of Holocaust and the issue of searching for one’s roots by members of next generations of the descendants of survivors. The novel is an important example of the new literary way of dealing with the topic of Holocaust. The interpretation contexts were drawn from, among others, work by Kaja Kaźmierska entitled Biography and Memory. The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivor, in which the author analyses the phenomenon of returning to one’s place of birth as a biographical compulsion of the subjects of the study, as well as works of Marianne Hirsch, the creator of the term ‘postmemory’
Leading Beautifully: How Mastery, Congruence and Purpose Create the Aesthetic of Embodied Leadership Practice
No full textThis paper explores the territory of leading as an embodied activity through the
lens of the aesthetic category of ‘the beautiful’. Its starting point is that
although much of the literature about effective leadership practice focuses on
leadership behaviours, little is written about the way in which those behaviours
are actually enacted. The musician, Bobby McFerrin serves as a case study for
identifying three key aspects of leading beautifully: mastery, congruence
between form and content, and purpose. These are further considered through
reference to the concept of beauty as theorised by the philosophers Plato and
Plotinus. The paper then considers how ‘leading beautifully’ might differ from
other conceptualisations of leadership and discusses the particular insight it
brings to understanding the nature of leading as a relational ph
Narrative Omniscience and Science Fiction
No full textThe author of the paper suggests, referring to the discussion provoked by Jonathan Culler’s text Omniscience, that the narration of science-fiction expresses the category of omniscientific narration in a characteristic way. He proposes a thesis that the category has reached the key significance in comparison with the one of suspicion as an inherent part of the nature of science fiction.Uniwersytet w Białymstoku113514
Interpellations : Three Essays on Kent Monkman = Trois essais sur Kent Monkman
No full textKent Monkman’s work fascinates. An artist of Cree origin he revisits North American historical events and western cultural representations, often under the guise of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his alter ego, the sexy and extravagant diva warrior. His aesthetics and drama have the effect of drawing out both what has been erased and concealed in the historical inscription of aboriginal culture the repressed desire and troubled fascination that have paradoxically contributed to shaping it.
In Interpellations. Three Essays on Kent Monkman the art historians Jonathan D. Katz, Richard W. Hill and Todd Porterfield offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman’s work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.final article publishe
Who is afraid of Jonathan Littlel?
No full textArtykuł przedstawia analizę zestawu recenzji i szkiców krytycznych, które ukazały się w polskiej prasie po wydaniu powieści Jonathana Littella Łaskawe. Korzystając z narzędzi oferowanych przez tak zwane memory studies oraz koncepcji postpamięci autorstwa Marianne Hirsch, autorka bada powody różnego typu przemilczeń i swoistej autocenzury, którymi charakteryzują się owe teksty. Powieść Littella w tym ujęciu okazuje się prowokacją, na którą bardzo różnie odpowiadają krytycy różnych pokoleń. Również od przynależności do pokolenia zależy – jak pokazują analizowane teksty – sposób ujmowania i rozumienia Zagłady jako wydarzenia historycznego i otwartego problemu poznawczego. Druga część szkicu wykazuje, że Jonathan Littell konstruuje swoją powieść, biorąc za podstawę mechanizmy społecznej i kulturowej pamięci, których struktura nie jest wolna od schematów, klisz, słów-kluczy. Powieść okazuje się wymierzona specjalnie w nowoczesne i ponowoczesne metodologie czytania, który to fakt nie został właściwie zauważony ani zinterpretowany przez krytyków (którzy sami jednak z owych metodologii korzystali).The paper presents the analysis of a set of reviews and critical essays, which have been published in the Polish press after the publication of Jonathan Littel’s novel The Kindly Ones. Using the tools offered by the so-called “memory studies” and the Marianne Hirsch’s concept of post-memory, the author examines the reasons of various suppressions and peculiar self-censorship, which characterise those texts. The Littell’s novel in this depiction turns out to be a provocation, to which critics of different generations respond very differently. What is also a result of their belonging to a certain generation is the way in which they display the analyzed texts and the way of grasping and understanding the holocaust as a historical event and an open cognitive problem. The second part of the essay proves that Jonathan Littell constructs his novel basing on the mechanisms of social and cultural memory, which’s structure is not free of schemes, clichés and key-words. The novel turns out to be purposely aimed at the modern and postmodern methodologies of reading, which is a fact that has not been properly noticed and interpreted by the critics (who, however, have themselves used those methodologies)
Ground-water hydrology of the upper Klamath Basin, Oregon and California
No full textby Marshall W. Gannett, Kenneth E. Lite Jr., Jonathan L. La Marche, Bruce J. Fisher, and Danial J. Polette ; prepared in cooperation with the Oregon Water Resources Department.Title from PDF cover (viewed on April 22, 2020).Covers OCLC #1151627285 and OCLC #123900688.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The strategies of culturally burdened translation : the Polish translation of "Jonathan Edwards reader"
No full textThe author discusses the process of translation of Jonathan Edwards Reader into Polish. This anthology of sermons, letters, personal writings and philosophical texts by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), early modern American theologian and preacher, posed a considerable challenge to the team of translators because of how strongly it is immersed in the colonial culture. Different lexical and stylistic problems that occurred in the translation process are presented, together with the strategies adopted by the translators to address them
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